The RASTA features (these are the 16ms-adjusted) are clearly blurred-out
versions of the PLP, and the msg1b features do indeed look even more blurred
in addition to more exotic phase effects, but the msg1a features are more
than just blurred - they're ringing. I thought maybe it was a bug,
so I checked the modulation-domain filter response (a 17-point FIR filter),
but it was perfect - flat from 0-16 Hz,
then ripples peaking at -40dB from about 20 Hz up. It does, however,
have ringing in the time domain. Plotting just the 7th frequency
channel for each of the above shows it very clearly:
And here are the frequency and impulse responses of the two filters, just to confirm:
Interesting, eh? We've tried several different kinds of msg feature with BN, and these ones have always come out on top.